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uBiome clinical tests are fully or partially covered by most health insurance companies under "out-of-network" healthcare benefits, with a valid healthcare provider's order. We have patient assistance programs in place to assist eligible patients with the remaining patient responsibility.

What will the process look like?

1. Upon receipt of your request, we'll ensure that you have the most up to date version of our clinical tests, to date. If you don't, we'll first re-sequence your eligible samples to this version.

2. Around the end of Fall, you'll receive a notification when your newest report (including yeast!) is available.

Which uBiome product is right for you?

SmartGut

SmartJane

Explorer

Patients with chronic gut conditions such as IBD or IBS, or symptoms such as gas, bloating or diarrhea.

Patients with the desire to, alongside their healthcare provider, learn more about their own vaginal health and how to improve conditions, such as discharges or infections, through lifestyle or diet.

Health and wellness tool to help you better discover how diet and lifestyle affect your microbiome.

Doctor authorization required?

Yes

Yes

No

Where is it available?

US and Canada (other countries coming soon)

US and Canada (other countries coming soon)

203 countries and regions where online payments can be made with a credit card or PayPal

What is the price?

uBiome clinical tests are fully or partially covered by most health insurance companies under “out-of-network” healthcare benefits. We have patient assistance programs in place to assist eligible patients with the remaining patient responsibility.

uBiome clinical tests are fully or partially covered by most health insurance companies under “out-of-network” healthcare benefits. We have patient assistance programs in place to assist eligible patients with the remaining patient responsibility.

I Tested Positive for HPV. Now what?

January 2nd, 2018

Smart Jane™ tests for gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, mycoplasma genitalium, and 19 strains of HPV, and it provides you with information about vaginal risk factors. In this blog post, we wanted to discuss HPV in particular. It’s the most common sexually transmitted infection in the US. If you or someone you know tests positive, you may wonder, now what?

First, schedule a visit with the healthcare provider that ordered the test. They will already have your test results from uBiome and will be able to help you with your next steps.

For example, the healthcare provider may recommend more frequent pap smears. Paps check for the presence of abnormal, or precancerous, cervical cells and cancerous cervical cells. You may find you are positive for high-risk HPV but have a normal pap smear. In other words, your cervical cells are normal, but HPV is present. If the pap smear is abnormal, meaning abnormal cervical cells were detected, your doctor may want to take a closer look with a colposcopy, biopsy the cells, and possibly remove them to prevent cervical cancer. If you develop warts, a doctor can remove them. After the removal of warts or abnormal cervical cells, the virus itself may still exist and can be spread.

Avoid cigarette smoking, as smoking has been linked to decreased amounts of vaginal lactobacillus.

You’ll also want to continue to protect yourself and any sexual partners. HPV is spread primarily through genital-to-genital contact, including vaginal and anal intercourse and rubbing genitals together. Using condoms and dental dams can reduce the risk of transmission significantly (but not completely). The most effective way to reduce HPV transmission is abstaining from genital-to-genital contact. More research is needed on HPV transmission via sex toys. If you’re sharing sex toys, disinfect them per the manufacturer’s recommendations and put a new condom on them between each partner’s use. Additionally, there is no HPV test for people with penises, so right now low-risk HPV can only be detected if they have warts. Whether or not you’ve tested positive for STIs, discussing STI testing and history prior to any sexual contact is important for a fully consensual intimate experience.

If you want more information about body literacy, informed choice, and consent, find us atThe Fifth Vital Sign.